Research within the RCCS will expectedly lead to insight into, and ultimately also solutions for, many current social challenges, debates and tasks for teachers. This concerns issues in the classroom, such as tackling unequal opportunities, increasing pupils’ motivation to read and ensuring an adequate level of digital competence, which are dependent on, or influenced by, other scale levels. This also concerns issues relevant to all scale levels, such as updating curricula and reducing perceived work pressure and teacher shortages. These last two issues are currently stressing the quality and viability of the Dutch education system.

Within the RCCS, researchers in the field of educational sciences and subject didactics in the alpha, beta, and gamma domains collaborate. A central question within this research center is how to make the curriculum meaningful, coherent, and inclusive. The RCCS will:

• facilitate the connection between educational scientific and subject didactic disciplines.
• facilitate the connection between perspectives at the macro, meso, and micro levels of education.
• focus on the process of curriculum development and curriculum content. This includes a structural focus on the what and the why of the curriculum in Dutch foundational education, which lays the groundwork for the development of our society.